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Turkey has a robust defense industry and in various aspects they are well ahead of Iran however if they were ahead of Iran in jet propulsion they wouldn't need to import engines or even components of an engine for the 1000km Gazgin cruise missiles yet to be produced. And it's as simple as that...

Iran has an active heavy fighter project that's at it's design phase and among others Iran has reverse engineered F-4's as well. So to say that Iran is stuck on the F-5's is incorrect. There is a major difference between fixating on something than being stuck. And the F-5 is a good trainer that...

First off the fact that Iran has upgraded it's F-4's and F-14's into more capable fighters has nothing to do with the fact that the Kowsar/F-5 is not a platform worth pursuing for use as anything other than an Advanced Supersonic Trainer. 2ndly do you honestly think Iranian authorities are...

I think he meant Saddam became victorious in finally getting Iran to stop slapping him around! As for who actually won the war any objective person would clearly analyze it like this: - Saddam (Iraq) started the war and invaded Iran with clear objective of annexing portion of Iranian soil...

Tolue, Owj, F-5 program are all projects started by Shahid Sattari and if he was still alive and if we were on the right track we would have moved passed these projects a decade ago. Except for the Tolue which has had upgrades and design modifications over the years and is more than sufficient...

I think a better analogy would have been changing a Go-Kart into a Formula-1 Main problem I have with Iran's F-5 program is more about Iran's refusal to move on past the program and towards something bigger with bigger more powerful engines which will force you to push boundaries of...

And the fact that Thailand operates 27 F-5's with plans to retire them and replace them with the Saab Gripens in the next 5-10 years proves what exactly? and yes 10 of them will be upgraded with AESA radars to allow them to stay in service for another decade. I'm guessing as soon as the Thai...

I would absolutely agree to the purchase of this beautiful Russian Aircraft if the Russians agree to a +80% technology transfer and access to weapons systems to allow for Iranian produced weapons to be placed on it. That would be a worth while investment. However without it neither this nor...

No doubt flying in your own Airspace increases you chances of survival that fact remains true for any fighter on the planet. However, in a proper cost benefit analysis you can't simply close your eyes to Iranian F-5 stats in areal engagements against the Iraqi Air Force. At Iran's level of...

Iran has 8 years of actual WAR experience with the F-5 so I really don't need no American stats or American movies to tell me what an ill equipped fighter the F-5 is!!!! Iranian Air-to-Air Victories 1976-1981 (archive.org) The stats above have both confirmed and claims Now tell me what...

You'd have to be delusional to think that the Americans are stupid enough to allow an enemy Aircraft to get within dogfight range of an F-35 and even if we could get within dogfight range the notion that an IRST equipped fighter would lose to a fighter that is not equipped with an IRST in a...

Because these delusion are NOT helpful in properly assessing and addressing the weaknesses of Iranian military capabilities! And kosar or upgraded F-5E/F are just not worth mass producing! Yes it's a great advanced supersonic jet trainer but that's all it is, a trainer!

As for your illusions about Kosars capabilities let me assure you that even if 10 Kowsars from 10 different directions where to come at an F-35 in under 30 seconds the F-35 could go radar on, lock & fire killing 2-4 of them and then start heading back home without a single kosar being able to...

RD-33's wouldn't produce enough thrust to have the payload capacity needed for a single engine maned fighter equipped with a RD-33 to be worth the cost of production as appose to the current kosar especially in a country the size Iran and based on the threats Iran faces. Spending all that money...

Shafaq was originally a joint project with Russia for an advanced jet trainer that was subsequently canceled years ago. Nothing mysterious about it and even if produced it really wouldn't of been a valuable fighter due to a lack of range and thrust and until Iran address the problems it has in...

Your IADS will make incursions more complex and more complicated and yes in your own Air Space you'll have the ability to fly at any altitude and will have far greater ability to go full thrust in any direction while your enemy will clearly be restricted both in terms of the amount of fuel they...

Producing a fighter based on the assumption that your AIDS will not only survive but can actively engage an enemy fighter within the vicinity of your own fighter is absurd. And I'm not saying you can't use those type of tactics, simply that producing a fighter based on those assumptions is absurd.

Unfortunately it's Iranian leadership who is overestimating the value and capabilities of this Aircraft and they are miscalculating the cost efficiency of such a Fighter Jets compared to a more expensive more capable fighter Fact is if your producing a fighter that you know will at best have a...

Over an engine like the J-85? No! If your supply chain can't. then that's what you should be focused on! Fact is there is NO WAY to have a healthy, productive & cost efficient production line if you can't! If it's taking you 2 months to produce one of the most simplistic jet engines in the...

I think a proper bomber version of the Simorgh should to at the very least have 12,000 lbf of dry thrust and how you choose to get there really depends on how cheap and quick one engine can be produced compared to the other! Iran is currently producing the Owj(J85) engine at a rate of 6 per year...